Updated database lays out state employees' salaries

Aug. 7, 2009

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Times staff report

The St. Cloud Times has posted updated information on state employees and how much they earned in 2008.

Use the search tools below to check the database of the about 57,000 employees who work for the state’s executive, legislative and judicial branches. There's a separate search tool for University of Minnesota employees.

In recent years newspapers, state governments and other Web sites have made salaries — which have long been public and available if requested — searchable online in an effort to foster transparency in government. The Times first compiled and posted the data last year.More searchable data about crime, education and business is available at www.sctimes.com/data.

Included are the employee’s name, position, department and how much they earned in 2008 in regular wages and other pay.

The state employee with the highest base salary last year was James McCormick, chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. He earned $377,982 in salary and an additional $31,079 in other pay, such as bonuses.

St. Cloud State University President Earl H. Potter III was fourth with a salary of $273,140, plus $52,543 in other pay.